Killer Instinct
Fair · Action · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or AMD Radeon HD 5850, 48 GB of storage. Windows only.
The legendary fighting franchise is back with over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!!! Choose your ultimate combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and enthralling special attacks.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mortal Kombat X ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 765 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.4 hours. Doing everything runs 334, 139 times as long.
11 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 29, 17:47 UTC.
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 17:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Killer Instinct scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/577940/killer-instinctReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.
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